Testimonies of Healing
"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" ( Isa. 45:22 ).
It is wonderfully challenging to prove the power of God, Mind, in spiritual healing, even if it took two months to realize the healing I wish to relate here. I was driving to visit friends for a weekend, when my car left the parkway and somersaulted into an embankment.
When I was a very small boy, my mother shared with me truths of God and His care for man that she was learning from the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This made me aware of God as our Father and Mother, divine Love, who provides all good to His children.
"Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. " These words by Mrs.
Our family has been greatly blessed by the study of Christian Science. It has been our sole physician since I was a child.
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" ( Ps. 107:21.
In 1918 my father, while in the Army, became ill with flu. He had been raised by devoted Protestant parents, and in a delirious state he called on God for help.
When I was about five years old, my mother, having heard of Christian Science through a friend, turned to it for healing for me. I had been suffering for some time from a stubborn, persistent cough that did not yield to medical treatment.
For me The Herald of Christian Science with its instructive articles and testimonies has always been a welcome and uplifting renewal of spiritual inspiration, and the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly , given us for study, enlarges my understanding of Christian Science. I was led to Christian Science prior to the Second World War.
In November 1976 a friend and I were visiting in a distant city. The morning we were to leave for home she waited at the hotel while I went to a garage to get my car.